ZOOM event: A Narrative Walk with Nora Bateson. In conversation on her new book “Combining”

ZOOM event

A Narrative Walk with Nora Bateson. In conversation on her new book “Combining

 

 

A conversation with

Nora Bateson

Independent award-winning film-maker, writer, policy adviser and lecturer.
President of the Stockholm-based International Bateson Institute (IBI)

 

Organized by:

The Institute of Narrative Therapy & Community Work in Greece

and hosted by Yannis Angelis

 

Monday 11 th March, 

18:00 – 20:00 CET (19:00-21:00 Athens time)

 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT

It isn’t easy to find the proper words to speak about the beauty, the deeply rewarding wisdom, and all the gifts that spring from Nora Bateson’s new book as it has started its soul-stretching journey to the world.

Every single corner in her book, even if you visit numerous times, offers a new reflection, feeling, discovery, and awe. It feels like holding an open book that keeps you constantly exhilarated and it will never end and close. Along with the bewitching pieces of art that cuddle inside, it invites us to a deeper pure form of rest and slowing down, to also appreciate the calming intimacy of not- knowing, and at the same time gently spiking us to re-appear in full presence and relationship.

A strong full-hearted recommendation for anyone bold who is eager to get themselves on a journey in a “no-path”, which is continuously formed and in-formed by your own learnings as you walk on it.

The event invites a celebration relief, it will be honored by the presence of various artists and it will gift the participants with illuminating pieces of art, poetry, stories, music, theory, and of course it will include reading snippets from the book. As Nora says it in her own words “… reading aloud is an act of love, so tangible and resonant with the hum of life.”

It will be held via ZOOM and the link will be sent some hours before the event to the email you used for your registration.

 

Watch Nora reading one of her most beautiful poems included in her new book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LEWs9gJKhM

 

NORA BATESON’S BIO:

Nora Bateson is an independent award-winning film-maker, writer, policy adviser and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, and grand-daughter of William Bateson and is president of the Stockholm-based International Bateson Institute (IBI) – a research group that specializes in transcontextual research into human and other living systems.

Nora made the award-winning film An Ecology of Mind, which explores Gregory Bateson’s theoretical work while offering insights into her relationship with her father. Nora’s first published work was a cookbook and her interest in food, ecology and the family – as well as systems thinking and symmathesy – are very evident in her beautiful 2016 book Small Arcs of Larger Circles”.

Nora Bateson’s theoretical style combines complex systems theory and analysis with an all-round awareness of, and attention to, the aesthetic. She continues to explore a wide range of disparate topics such as education, communication, and cybernetics through the lens of Warm Data. This aspect of her work is exemplified in her latest book Combining.

Memberships and awards: Chairman International Bateson Institute, Associate of The Taos Institute, Board Member: Human Systems Journal of Systemic Practice, Tällberg Foundation, Fellow of Lindisfarne Foundation, Bateson Idea Group (BIG), Club of Rome, Great Transition Foundation, Human Potential Foundation, Awards: Sustainable Thompkins Ecology Award, Winner Spokane Film Festival, Winner Santa Cruz Film Festival, Media Ecology Award.

 

YANNIS ANGELIS’ BIO:

Yannis Angelis is a Narrative Therapist, Storytelling Educator, Artist,andCertified Trainer for Nora Bateson’s “Warm Data Labs”. He has co-authored the books “Beyond Storytelling” and “Transforming Organizations”, on how to use narrative approaches in education, community building, and organizational transformation.

Yannismade an e-learning curriculum on Storytelling for the German “Green” University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf and he teaches narrative theory and practices to the leaders of “GIZ”, a federal agency of the German Ministry of Development supporting the achievement of its goals in the field of international cooperation for sustainable “green” development.

He is the co-initiator and co-organizer of three world conferences on Narrative and Community Practice. In December 2022, his project “Climate Parliament. Narratives of the non-human”, which highlights the “climate-related” stories of the non-human beings and things, was included in the program of the 8th Biennale of Contemporary Artin Thessaloniki and became its most participatory event.

 

Some useful information for your online participation: 

a) Please make sure that you have downloaded the latest version of ZOOM.

b) Try to secure and join from a place where you have a good internet signal and sufficient bandwidth.

c) Check in your computer/laptop/tablet/phone that the camera, microphone, and connected or integrated speakers are working well and test all of them in advance.

d) Plan to come having cared for your needs. Bring something to drink or eat if you like. Close all programs/apps/windows on your PC/laptop, including your browser. It’s very useful to turn off notifications, alarms, cell phone ringers, and any other distractions. This is our precious time to be online together, to connect, and listen to one of the most renowned voices of this challenging era, the one of Nora Bateson.

 

Please, fill in the form below to register:

https://forms.gle/FNpHNeVikxKsnjQQA

 

For any further information you may need, please contact us at: narrativetherapygr@gmail.com

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Hybrid (live and web) educational event: Declining expert knowledge: Explorations of narrative therapeutic and community practice around mental health concerns

Hybrid (live and web) educational event

Declining expert knowledge: Explorations of narrative therapeutic and community practice around mental health concerns

 

with

the Australian narrative therapist, trainer and supervisor

 from Dulwich International Faculty

David Newman

Honorary Clinical Fellow at Melbourne University School of Social Work

(for the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work)

 

  • Open – free event

Friday, April 7, 2023 – 18.30 – 20.30 (Athens Greece Time) (17:30 – 19:30 CET)

Online by connecting to the link that will be sent to those interested. Please, fill out this form in order to provide you with the link. The link will be sent to you via mail on Thursday, April 6.

https://forms.gle/vefyvsHDYUGwJhod6

 

  • Educational Seminar   

Saturday, April 8, 2023 – 11.00 – 19.00 (Athens Greece Time) (10:00 – 20:00 CET)

Sunday, April 9, 2023 – 10.00 – 16.00 (Athens Greece Time) (09:00 – 15:00 CET)

Biennestar Psychotherapeutic Centre

181 Vasilissis Olgas str, Thessaloniki, Greece

(near Martiou str) 

YOU CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE SEMINAR ONLINE .

 

Language:

     – English (with consecutive Greek translation) for the open event

     – English for the seminar

 

Information:

narrativetherapygr@gmail.com

Tel. +30- 6977-186936, Anna Miliou, secretary of INT- Greece 

Tel. +30- 6955-103581, Adam Charvatis, scientific coordinator of INT- Greece 

 

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See below:

A. INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPEN EVENT & SEMINAR

B. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINER

C1. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

  1.     Time – Place
  2.     Fees – Payment of the seminar

C2. How to connect 

  1.     For the open event
  2.     For the seminar

C3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION  general

  1.     Certification – extra support

 

Α. INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPEN EVENT AND THE SEMINAR 

 

  • Open -free of charge- Friday event:

Exploring the world of possibilities with the written word in narrative therapy”

In this open event David Newman will share his explorations with genre, as well as how the written word as a vehicle for enabling contribution and connection.

 

  • Saturday & Sunday seminar

Declining expert knowledge: Explorations of narrative therapeutic and community practice around mental health concerns 

Although expert knowledge and positivism has been subjected to a long history of critique in the field of mental health, both inside and outside the field, expert knowledge and positivism still occupy a substantial place in the practice or mental health service delivery. This workshop will explore different options for declining expert knowledge. These options will be informed by the narrative approach.

Consideration will be given to:
– accountability,
– the elaboration of double-storied work,
– the power relations of gratitude and ways to be on the lookout for it showing up in our work,
– alternative practices around “psychiatric genetics”
– and Edward Shorter’s concept of “symptom pool” which can morph in “symptom contamination”.

The workshop consist of
– lectures
– the sharing of therapeutic and group practice stories,
– the opportunity to ’try out’ how the ideas may translate to your context.

 

B. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINER

 

David Newman has been trained by Michael White, the founder of Narrative Therapy in Australia. He has decades of experience in working in dozens of mental health services and voluntary organizations as well as an independent practitioner. He is currently working in independent practice as well as in Sydney at Uspace, a psychiatric unit for young people in St Vincent’s Hospital.

He is a member of the Dulwich Centre faculty, a Honorary Clinical Fellow at Melbourne University’s School of Social Work and a teacher in the Master’s Program in Narrative Therapy and Community Work of the University of Melbourne (a university accredited as one of the best in the world).

Recent teaching assignments have included Brazil, Nepal, Turkey, Hong Kong and Palestine. David is the author of many articles about Narrative Therapy including the influential “Rescuing the Said from the Saying of it: Living Documentation in Narrative Therapy.”

 You can find out more about his work by visiting the following links:

https://www.sydneynarrativetherapy.com.au/publications/

https://dulwichcentre.com.au/holding-our-heads-up/

https://dulwichcentre.com.au/responding-to-suicidal-thoughts/

 

C1. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

 

1. Time – Place

  • Open – free event

Friday, April 7, 2023 – 18.30 – 20.30 (Athens Greece Time) (17:30 – 19:30 CET)

Online by connecting to the link that will be sent to those interested. Please, fill out this form in order to provide you with the link. The link will be sent to you via mail on Thursday, April 6.

https://forms.gle/vefyvsHDYUGwJhod6

  • Educational Seminar   
  • Educational Seminar   

Saturday, April 8, 2023 – 11.00 – 19.00 (Athens Greece Time) (10:00 – 20:00 CET)

Sunday, April 9, 2023 – 10.00 – 16.00 (Athens Greece Time) (09:00 – 15:00 CET)

Biennestar Psychotherapeutic Centre

181 Vasilissis Olgas str, Thessaloniki, Greece

(near Martiou str) 

YOU CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE SEMINAR ONLINE .

 

2. Fees – Payment of the seminar

– Until Thursday 30th of April: 160 €   

– After Thursday 30th of April: 180 € 

You can pay via PayPal using the email narrativetherapygr@gmail.com.

Or you can deposit the respective registration fee to the IBAN GR54 0172 2280 0052 2806 9522 814 in Piraeus Bank (Greece)[Owner of the bank account is Institute for Narrative Therapy (Greece)]

Your place is reserved once you have paid.
After registering, please send an email to narrativetherapygr@gmail.com with:

  • a screenshot of the confirmation of your payment
  • your full name, profession, place of living, the way of attending the seminar (online or live) and a phone number just in case of urgent communication.

Once we receive your e-mail we will reply confirming your attendance at the online workshop.

 

C2. How to connect

  •  Open event
  1. Please, fill out this form in order to provide you with the link: https://forms.gle/vefyvsHDYUGwJhod6. The link will be sent to you via mail on Thursday, April 6.
  2. Please connect 15 minutes in advance to make sure everything is working properly with your connection.

 

  •  Seminar (in case you participate online)
  1. After paying for the seminar,  send us an e-mail (at narrativetherapygr@gmail.com), informing us of your registration.
  2. The day before the event, we send you the link, which will allow you to connect with us through the ZOOM platform.
  3. Please connect 15 minutes in advance to make sure everything is working properly with your connection.

 

C3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION  general

  1.     Certification – extra support

All participants will be given a CERTIFICATE.

 

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Hybrid (live and web) educational event: Narrative Therapy Practices & Feminisms: Unsettling structures of domination

Hybrid (live and web) educational event

Narrative Therapy Practices & Feminisms: Unsettling structures of domination

 

With the

members of the Teaching Faculty of Dulwich Centre (Australia)

honorary clinical fellows of the Master in Narrative Therapy of the University of Melbourne 

Kassandra Pedersen, psychologist

Poh Lin Lee, social worker

 

  • Open – free event

Friday, October 21 – 19.00 – 21.30 (Athens Greece Time) (18:00 – 20:30 CET)

Online by connecting to the link that will be sent to those interested. Please, fill out this form in order to provide you with the link. The link will be sent to you via mail on Thursday, 20 October.

https://forms.gle/ovzDunckbv7SpKfr9

 

  • Educational Seminar   

Saturday, October 22, 2022 – 15.00 – 22.00 (Athens Greece Time) (14:00 – 21:00 CET)

Sunday, October 23, 2022 – 15.00 – 21.00 (Athens Greece Time) (14:00 – 20:00 CET)

Biennestar Psychotherapeutic Centre

181 Vasilissis Olgas str, Thessaloniki, Greece

(near Martiou str) 

YOU CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE SEMINAR ONLINE .

 

Language:

     – English (with consecutive Greek translation) for the open event

     – English for the seminar

 

Information:

narrativetherapygr@gmail.com

Tel. +30- 6977-186936, Anna Miliou, secretary of INT- Greece 

Tel. +30- 6955-103581, Adam Charvatis, scientific coordinator of INT- Greece 

 

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See below:

A. INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPEN EVENT & SEMINAR

B. INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRESENTERS/TEACHERS

C1. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

  1.     Time – Place
  2.     Fees – Payment of the seminar

C2. How to connect 

  1.     For the open event
  2.     For the seminar

C3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION  general

  1.     Certification – extra support

 

Α. INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPEN EVENT AND THE SEMINAR 

 

Kassandra and Poh have a long-standing relationship of friendship, partnership, exchanges, co-research and mutual support and have generated bodies of co-produced knowledge for a number of different contexts. It is with great pleasure that Poh and Kassandra are coming together for the first time as co-facilitators of this workshop Narrative Practices & Feminisms: Unsettling structures of domination, a theme that is close to both their hearts and immensely shaping of the ways in which they choose to come to practice.

  • Open -free of charge- Friday event:

Join Poh and Kassandra for this open public event,  where they will share and discuss specific ways of coming to practice on account of the exchanges between Feminisms and Narrative Practices. This will include themes of: our multi-storied bodies; refusing to adhere to linear narratives and generating different types of movements in conversational exchanges. Why we might come to the practice in these ways will open space to make visible the shared ground between Narrative Practices and Feminisms – anti-oppressive practices that can unsettle structures of domination from vast overarching forms all the way through into the nuance of a single question.

  • Saturday & Sunday seminar

Kassandra and Poh invite you to join this hybrid -online and in person- gathering to co-research together the ways feminisms and narrative practice have been and continue to be in relationship with one another. In what ways they seek to contribute, call into question and remind one another through our daily practices and exchanges. What can emerge in our conversations from being in relationship with their collective knowledges and solidarity.

Throughout the workshop there will be a combination of experiential exercises, transcripts and stories of practice. In this workshop we will be extending a special invitation to engage, witness and be a part of a Feminist and Narrative Practice informed sharing of lived experience, that will focus on the person at the centre leading the unpacking of their experience. 

  • Suggested resources:

https://dulwichcentre.com.au/feminisms-project/

http://www.narrativeapproaches.com/feminism-therapy-and-narrative-ideas-exploring-some-not-so-commonly-asked-questions/ 

 

B. INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRESENTERS/TEACHERS

 

Kassandra Pedersen

Kassandra was born in Denmark, to her Danish father and her Greek immigrant mother, and now lives in Greece. Kassandra’s family and cultural values fostered a passion early in life  for constantly learning alongside allies and partnerships to unpack what is taken for granted or what is taught that is ‘truth’ within the context of Western societies ongoing neoliberal, patriarchal and colonial projects.

Kassandra is a psychologist and a private practitioner in a range of roles including narrative therapy, creative group work, supervision, whilst she is regularly tutoring, teaching and offering workshops across therapeutic and academic fields. She has many years of experience working in both public and independent settings.

She values and enjoys exploring and stretching narrative therapy in teaching and in her practice. In recent years Kassandra has worked alongside individuals, couples, children, and families in the areas of trauma, grief, effects of gendered violence and abuse, parenting, addictions, mental health concerns, relationship matters, and anorexia/bulimia to which she works from an insider perspective. Kassandra’s practice is informed and held accountable by the values and ethics of intersectional feminism and social justice frameworks which consider the contexts of people’s lives and honour people’s unique meaning making, capacities and skills in living.

She also enjoys using narrative ideas in group settings; this has included groups for parents of children with autism, groups of women living with the effects of violence and abuse, groups of employees in organizations affected by the economic crisis in Greece, groups for adults affected by concerns about anxiety or depression including the use of music therapy methodologies, groups for children with a focus on child-centered, family, and community-focused approaches to help alleviate hardship.

Kassandra has considerable experience supervising other practitioners in narrative therapy. She finds it a privilege to walk alongside those who are also working in this field in whatever capacity-to bear witness to their creative resistances to organizational oppression, managerialism, and neoliberal structures.

Kassandra is an honorary clinical fellow of the School of Social Work, University of Melbourne and she is currently tutoring on the Masters of Narrative Therapy and Community Work run by the University of Melbourne in Collaboration with Dulwich Centre. She is also on the teaching faculty of Dulwich Centre. In addition to teaching with Dulwich Centre on international courses (Ukraine, Turkey), Kassandra is the key faculty member of The Institute of Narrative Therapy (GR).

As well as enjoying these realms of Narrative Practice, Kassandra is a former professional cellist and enjoys traveling, swimming, and discovering new food experiences.

 

Poh Lin Lee

Poh is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman who comes to the practice through multiple experiences and relationships as a narrative therapy practitioner, social worker, co-researcher of trauma/displacement, writer, teacher, film protagonist and creative consultant.

Since 2004 Poh has been engaged in therapeutic co-research with people and communities responding to themes of experience such as family and state violence, displacement (from rights, land, home, body, identity, relationships), liminality and reclaiming practices of staying with experience and preference. Creative and therapeutic fields intersected for Poh whilst working with people seeking asylum within a film project with director Gabrielle Brady, Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018).

Poh is currently on the teaching faculty of Dulwich Centre; the teaching faculty & Board of Re-authoring Teaching; honorary clinical fellow of the School of Social Work, University of Melbourne and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Latin American Journal of Clinical Social Work. Poh is a sessional facilitator for KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany; Dokomotive Collective Cologne, Germany; VCA Film and Television, Australia; Attagirl for female and non-binary filmmakers; DocX Archive Lab Duke University, North Carolina and The Flaherty, New York, USA. 

 

C1. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

 

1. Time – Place

  • Open – free event

Friday, October 21 – 19.00 – 21.30 (Athens Greece Time) (18:00 – 20:30 CET)

Online by connecting to the link that will be sent to those interested. Please, fill out this form in order to provide you with the link. The link will be sent to you via mail on Thursday, 20 October.

https://forms.gle/ovzDunckbv7SpKfr9

  • Educational Seminar   

Saturday, October 22, 2022 – 15.00 – 22.00 (Athens Greece Time) (14:00 – 21:00 CET)

Sunday, October 23, 2022 – 15.00 – 21.00 (Athens Greece Time) (14:00 – 20:00 CET)

Biennestar Psychotherapeutic Centre

181 Vasilissis Olgas str, Thessaloniki, Greece

(near Martiou str) 

YOU CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE SEMINAR ONLINE .

 

 

2. Fees – Payment of the seminar

– Until Thursday 6th of October: 160 €   

– After Thursday 6th of October: 180 € 

You can pay via PayPal using the email narrativetherapygr@gmail.com.

Or you can deposit the respective registration fee to the IBAN GR54 0172 2280 0052 2806 9522 814 in Piraeus Bank (Greece)[Owner of the bank account is Institute for Narrative Therapy (Greece)]

Your place is reserved once you have paid.
After registering, please send an email to narrativetherapygr@gmail.com with:

  • a screenshot of the confirmation of your payment
  • your full name, profession, place of living, and a phone number just in case of urgent communication.

Once we receive your e-mail we will reply confirming your attendance at the online workshop.

 

C2. How to connect

  •  Open event
  1. Please, fill out this form in order to provide you with the link. The link will be sent to you via mail on Thursday, 20 October.https://forms.gle/ovzDunckbv7SpKfr9
  2. Please connect 15 minutes in advance to make sure everything is working properly with your connection.

 

  •  Seminar (in case you participate online)
  1. After paying for the seminar,  send us an e-mail (at narrativetherapygr@gmail.com), informing us of your registration.
  2. The day before the event, we send you the link, which will allow you to connect with us through the ZOOM platform.
  3. Please connect 15 minutes in advance to make sure everything is working properly with your connection.

 

C3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION  general

  1.     Certification – extra support

All participants will be given a CERTIFICATE.

 

 

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